WE SHALL BE SAVED BY HIS LIFE.

 
DECEMBER 20.
 
We shall be saved by his life.
Romans 5:10
 
THE apostle is speaking of Jesus,
  who reconciled us to God by his death;
  and he refers to the life he is now living in heaven.
 
It is a glorious life;
  a life in his Father's presence, and
  in the enjoyment of his Father's love; and
    yet he lives for his people.
 
He lives to plead for them.
 
He lives to bestow on them what he procured for them.
 
He lives to watch over them.
 
He deeply, most deeply, sympathizes with them.
 
His eyes is never off them.
 
They are never out of his thoughts for one moment.
 
His love to them is intense, a fire that is ever burning.
 
He obtained for us eternal redemption, and
  he will see that we are redeemed from all evil, and
   put into the possession of all good.
 
Blessed Saviour!  May I not only glory in thy cross,
  but often have my thoughts directed to thy life.
 
Thou didst die for me.
 
Thou dost live for me.
 
Being reconciled by thy death on earth,
  I shall certainly be saved by my life in heaven.
 
O to enter upon this day,
  believing that thou art living in heaven for me, and
  that all the influence of thy relationship,
  character, blood, and offices, is employed for me!
 
A living, pleading Saviour, will certainly save me.
 

He lives! He lives! and sits above,

For ever interceding there;

Who shall divide us from his love?

Or what should tempt us to despair?

 
James Smith 1849